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WEDDING GALA FOR A DUKE

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Arundel Plans Public

Town's Rejoicings

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́ By F. G. PRINCE-WHITE

ARUNDEL, Sussex, Dec. 18. RUNDEL folk are gazing with a new interest at the grey towers of the Duke of Norfolk's castle here: already they are. picturing the scene of jubilation when the young Hereditary Earl Marshal of England and Chief Butler to the King brings home his bride-to-be, the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, aged 20, Lord Belper's only daughter.

All of them are delighted by the announcement of the engago. ment. It was unexpected news, for not even officials who most enjoy the duke'a confidence had an inkling of it before he tele- phoned to his agent, Capt, Mostyn, here yesterday and directed him to Inform the mayor and deputy-mayor.

"We received a confidential note in which the duke expressed his wish that we should know of his engagement before it was made public," the mayor, Councillor Arthur Greaves, told me to-day.

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"Nothing could make the town happier than to see him happily married,"

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Viitorio, Mussolini's eldest son, has received his father's permission to go into Alms. After completing studles at Hollywood, he will enter a position In the Italian film administration.

The duke, who is 28, was Mayor of Arundel for the past Rats Ended A

municipal year. He made no mention at the traditional dinner given here to him on November 9 of his intention to marry.

Councillor Greaves was mayor in 1929, when" Arundel cole- brated the duke's coming-of-age. Now it will fall to him again to lead the town in rejoicing on the duke's wedding day,

"I have told the duke, in a letter of congratulation from the town, that we shall give a great welcome to his bride," he said to me.

Preparations for the home-coming were tentatively discussed at a meeting here to-night of the committee presided over by the mayor which is organising the local Coronation celebrations. WEDDING GIFT FUN D

The town will be bung with flags and hunting, as it was at the duke's coming-of-age, and it is thought that there will be a great banquet in the ancient Barons' Hall at Arundel Castle, in whose lofty windows the duke's ancestors and stirring scenes in his family's history are portrayed.

No intimation has yet been received of the date of the wed- ding. The general opinion is that it will be at Westminster Cathedral.

I understand that there will be a public subscription for a wedding presentation. To mark his coming- of-age Arundel gave the duke a gold cigarette casket, which was pre- sented to him in the town square. ti is hoped that it muy be possible to present the town's wedding gift in a Similarly public manner,

"Snowed Under"

The Duke of Norfolk spent the day in London yesterday,. attend- ing to important details of his Coronation work as Earl Marshal, During the afternoon Miss Strutt travelled from the country to be with i him.

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They have been snowed under messages of good will," said the duke's secretary to a London re- porter last night.

Miss Strutt had been staying with her mother, the former Lady Belper, now the Countess of Rosebery, at Mentmore, Leighton Buzzard.

She has for some time been a close frlend of the duke's sisters, Lady Katherine Lady Winifride, and Lady Rachel Howard.

A public engagement at which the duke may appear "with his flancee will be to-morrow's charity concert at Norfolk House in aid of the Invalid Children's Aid Associa- tion.

His mother, the Duchess of Nor-, folk,

will be the hostess, and she is! giving a private dinner party be-

forehand,

probability of Miss Strutt' embracing the Roman Catholic faith, to which the duke's family has tor centuries been attached, will be dis- Eussed by both families in the in- mediate future.

It she decides to do so she will, be required to take "instruction" lasting some weeks before receiving baptism, making her first confession, receiving her first Holy Communion, and being confrmed in the Faith.

A New Prayer Book

Liverpool, Dec. 15.

A campaign within the Church of England to obtain a revised Proyer Book will be launched at a public meeting in Liverpool on We

Wednesday by Dr. Pollock, Bishop of Norwich.

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Thomas Inskip, and the Dean of

Liverpool. Dr. F. W. Dwelly.

The National Church League directing the campaign, and Liver- pool has been chosen as the jumping- off ground because of the prominent part played by the city In the con- troversy nine years ago which ended in the House of Commons rejecting the first version of a revised Prayer Book.

Leaders of the new campaign aim at a-

a-modernised and simplified ver- sion of the Prayer Book, omitting one of two controversial portions.

Canon A. G. Bernard, of Anfield, chairman of the Liverpool Truth and Faith Committee, sald ·to-night that their object was to enrich the Prayer

yer Book. Although

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frank nowadays, most people will admit that there are passages that aro crude and distasteful-parts of the marri- nge service, for instance. It might be decided to take out the word 'obey.

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Coronation Will Be Televised

By A Radio Correspondent

All dimeulties in the way of tele- vising and broadcasting the Corona- tion have now been overcome, and I understand that the B.B.C. is shortly to issue to the radio authorities of the world an invitation to relay the broadcast free of charge.

It will be the biggest broadcast ever made. Scores of microphones are to be used along the roules and in Westminster Abbey.

Television presents a special prob- lem, but this is likely to be solved by the use of a £20,000 van, which is being built for the occanlon,

WILL IT BE FILMEDT The decision about a film of the Coronation will be made by the Coronation Committee of the Privy Council, of which Mr. Ramsay Moc- Donald, Lord President, is the chair-

man,

Some unnouncement on the whole position is expected fairly soon, in view of the technical dificulties to be avercome it permission is granted to film the ceremony.

race, but Whitnall said that auch a sudden extinction of one race by another has never been

Hamilton, N.Y., Dec. 19. Diseased rats and not a super-accomplished. ior race of men exterminated the Neanderthal cave-dwellers, Prof. Harold O. Whitnall, head of the department of geology at Colgate University, said to-day.

Students of pre-historic times generally have agreed that the Neanderthals were exterminated by the Cro-magnons, a superior

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Whitnall said he believed lemmings, short-tailed rats, carried a discase which killed off the Neanderthals.

"These lemmings were afflicted with a disease similar to the bubonic plague which killed 40,000,000 people in Europe during the middle ages," he said. "Fleas left the dead or dying ruts, bit the Neanderthals, gave them the plague and the entire race was destroyed.-United Press.

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